Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh on The Laura Flanders Show

Laura Flanders speaks to scholars Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about the promises of "commoning" for our environment – and our social health.

Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the campaign for Wages for Housework internationally. Peter Linebaugh is an author and historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. He is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.

"...the series is a must-read..." - Maximum Rock n Roll Magazine

“Fire. begins with a short story called “The Saffron Gatherers.” In the story, the protagonist Suzanne rekindles a long-lost relationship with a gifted writer living in San Francisco. They visit an open house and agree to move in together once she returns from a business trip. The story is festooned with references to art and wring and has a dreamlike, almost drugged quality— a languid pleasance that makes the ending all the more impactful.

Fire. in an installment of PM Press’s Outspoken Author series. If this slim volume is any indication, the series is a must-read, a means for readers to introduce themselves to indispensable writers like Elizabeth Hand. It’s great to be genuinely excited to dive into an author’s work— which I am..."—Michael T Fournier, Maximum RocknRoll Magazine

Peter Kuper: Drawn to an International Comic Art Career

"Peter Kuper’s seen it all. And he wants us to see it, too. So he draws it for us. His visits to Latin America, the Middle East, and beyond have been providing him with perspective and inspiration for World War 3 Illustrated – America’s longest-running radical comic book anthology, since 1980...Drawn to New York illustrates 30 years, including an era when the city was much more dangerous, down and dirty, then later, as it was gentrified for better and worse, through 9-11 and other stormy experiences – literally with Hurricane Sandy..."—Michael Dooley, Printmag.com

"...time to dust off these anarchist writing...and reconsider what Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin had to say..."

"Anarchists have a bad reputation. Historically they are associated with terrorism, bomb-throwing, assassinations and the wild utopianism of a life without government, in chaos. Admittedly, over the course of centuries, some anarchists have fit this description. More recently, the word “anarchist” conjures images of the black bloc – black-clad rioters in balaclavas, smashing windows, car windshields and pitching rocks at police. In short, to many, anarchism means lunatic violence. But like most stereotypes, the anarchist one is misleading; applied to Proudhon, Bakunin or Kropotkin – three notable anarchist thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – these stereotypes are simply piffle, as a new book by Brian Morris, “Kropotkin, the Politics of Community,” amply demonstrates."—Eve Ottenberg

Kuwasi Balagoon ? Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.

Michael Fine
Julia, an American medical doctor fleeing her privileged background, and Carl whose experiences as a black man in the U.S. led him to volunteer in Africa come together as Liberia is gripped in a brutal civil war.

Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater ? Foreword: John P. Clark
Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.

Jenny Brown
In the U.S., women have not yet realized their potential bargaining position. When they do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improved working conditions for parents.

John Quail ? Afterword: Constance Bantman ? Biographical sketches: Nick Heath
The British anarchist movement during the years 1880-1930, while borrowing from Europe, was self-actuated and independent, with a vibrant tale all its own.

Voline ? Introduction: Iain McKay ? Foreword: Rudolf Rocker
A translation of the full text of La Rιvolution inconnue. It reinstates material omitted from earlier editions and reproduces the complete text of the original volumes.

Mariarosa Dalla Costa ? Preface: Harry Cleaver ? Editor: Camille Barbagallo
These essays provide critical and relevant ideas for anticapitalists, antiracists, and feminists who are attempting to build counterpower in the age of austerity.

Mark Leier
Outlining the similarities between Bakunin and Marx, Leier suggests that the differences have often been exaggerated preventing activists from learning useful lessons about creating vibrant movements.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti ? Editor: Jon Curley
This work features a never-before-published short story by this famous anarchist and victim of legal persecution, xenophobia, and condemnation for his radical politics.

Peter Linebaugh
Linebaugh enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
This short primer explores and describes the philosophy and underpinnings of the community rights movement-a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience based on municipal lawmaking.

Milton Knight ? Editors: Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware
The artistic skills of Milton Knight, at once acute and provocative, bring out James's unique personality, how it arose, and how he became a world figure.